There should be no official category of a “hate crime.” All such a designation does is introduce politics into the process of charging, trying, and punishing, as is clearly happening here. And it’s just another way for the federal government to assert control over situations that should be handled by the individual states.
Conservatives should be unanimous in wanting to get rid of the designation altogether, rather than attempting to get it to also apply to white people at times.
A person should be charged and convicted for what he did, not for what he was thinking when he did it, period. For one thing, a minor infraction, like throwing the bird at someone, could easily be escalated into a hate crime under certain circumstances. Just dump the idea.
Wonder what President-elect Trump thinks of the concept? Has anyone asked him, or hasn’t that occurred to the MSM yet?
You’re precisely correct, imho.